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“Oh, come on! How many shithole motels does this city have?” I asked after an hour of driving.We’d pulled into an almost identical architectural stain as the blood covered one we fled.“A lot,” Six said as he turned to me. “Vegas, baby.”I groaned and reached for the handle.My hands shook as I exited. While the adrenaline had worn off, there was some residual aftereffects that prevailed. Weakness and fatigue being some of them. Luckily my ears had stopped ringing, but there was still a strange feeling in them.Once again, the room was out of date and well worn. I collapsed onto the bed as soon as we entered.The images of the dead gangsters were on my mind. I couldn’t shut them off. I’d seen enough death to last a lifetime since Six.Death chased him and the other Cleaners. And only I knew why Three was able to be taken out.“You aren’t as great as you think you are,” I said, my face half mashed into the comforter. “The Cleaners aren’t invincible.”He stopped unloadi
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For hours I watched Six meticulously clean each piece of the arsenal he picked up. Boxes of bullets emptied, pushed one by one into a clip for backup.He had a shoulder holster, and as soon as two guns were ready, he strapped them in, setting it aside. What looked like a smaller pistol was slipped into some other type of holster and set next to the other one. That left one more along with half a dozen full clips and at least two knives.“Are you going into battle?” I asked, completely enthralled and totally terrified.He stopped and glanced at me. “Preparing for as much as I can.”Preparing.I continued to watch him and realized that it was for that rarity he talked about—a firefight. If there was, what would happen to me? Caught in the middle, nowhere to go and no way to defend myself?“What about me?”He quirked his brow. “What about you?”“I’m just going to be left undefended?”“Lacey, this is a precaution. This is being prepared for the what ifs I can’t answer. The
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The adrenaline was wearing off, the previous hour playing on loop. My ears hurt from all the shooting, and I probably had a little bit of hearing damage.“Was that a wetwork team?” I asked, remembering the term he and Jason used.He nodded. “They knew we were coming.”“Late?”“Four was here days ago. If he was killed there, there would be no reason to show up.”I stared at him. The gravity of what that meant was heavy. “So, there’s a leak in the system.”He nodded again. “That many men? They wanted to make sure I didn’t leave.”“Why?”His grip on the wheel tightened. “That’s the million dollar question. Two of us, maybe three, are dead. Hunted down and killed.”“You’re contemplating something,” I said as I studied his expression.The muscle in his jaw jumped. “You said Three probably drank the drugs.”“Yeah.”Six shook his head. “I just don’t see that happening.”“Why?”“We’re all very careful, paranoid, about where our drinks come from.”“You drank from the bar.
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I pulled back the dressing on my leg and cringed. It wasn’t pretty. It was healing, but I kind of expected it to look better after a week.We stayed in the motel room the entire time, with only one trip out to a grocery and to switch out cars. Laying low in an entirely different fashion than before.And by switch out, I meant steal. It wasn’t one of the set-up, ready and waiting ones.During that time, he tried to get more information about Four while I learned the mechanics of guns, from safety to disassembling and cleaning. Not to mention the cabin fever that was beginning to consume me.“Does this look okay?” I held my leg out, and he stood up and walked over to examine it.His hand ran up the inside of my thigh as he took hold of my leg and turned it in the light. “It’s healing nicely. How does it feel?”“The pain is pretty much gone, just depends on how I move the skin.”He nodded. “Sounds about right. You should keep that off, let it get some air.”I moved to rest
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I sat in a daze the next morning.No snarky remarks. Not even many words.There was blackness and a fracture and a huge ass identity crisis happening within me.The death Six and the Killing Corps dealt was real. It was rivers of blood and piles of bodies.And I was a part of it.I’d added a drop to the bucket that overflowed with red.Lacey was a different person from Paisley, and the lines between them were no longer blurred by obscurity. It was hard and absolute, and cracked, because I cracked. Because I saw for the first time what I had become. The difference between Lacey and Paisley.Lacey was a role I played, not the real me, but somehow I’d forgotten. Nothing of the last two months had been my life. The way I looked, the clothes I wore, the way I traveled, or the company I kept.I, Paisley, had killed people.They were people who were trying to kill me, so it was self-defense, but I couldn’t forget the high and the way I fucked Six after.“We’ve been here too
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Stats:17 – number of times I’d been called some form of cattle or sheep or a cat8256 – times I tried to convince myself I was not developing feelings for my executioner8254 – times I succeeded in convincing myself I was not developing feelings for my executioner2 – times I failed at convincing myself I was not developing feelings for my executionerFuck meThings were beyond complicated. I was a rational human being, so logic dictated that you do not fall in love with a man who constantly reminded you he was going to kill you.The problem was, his dick was so good at helping me forget logic. He made me feel for him.The saying is you can’t help who you fall in love with, but really? Did it have to happen with a psychopathic killer?Though I didn’t think it was quite love, but…I’d never felt as alive as I did with him.Although I never thought I would develop any feelings other than loathing toward my captor, somewhere along the line, I had.Maybe I was
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When the sun began to set, we got ready. Six double checked the two guns he was going to take and grabbed two full magazines while I armed my jeans with my lip balm.“Where are we meeting him?” I asked as I slipped on my flats.He held the door open as I walked through. The car was parked right in front of the room.Once out of the parking lot and on the road, he finally answered me. “Up the coastal highway, past Santa Barbara. There’s an abandoned restaurant.”“Why was it abandoned?” I wasn’t really expecting a response, just curious.In true Six fashion, he ignored me. Instead, he kept his eyes glued to the dark pavement.Once out of L.A. and past the Santa Barbara area, the traffic decreased and it became pitch black. The exception was the moon shining onto the great expanse of the ocean to our left, leaving a streak of light on the water.It was an amazing view, the beam extending for miles. There were a few lights from boats, but otherwise it was empty.After about
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By the time we got back to the motel I was chilled to the bone. My teeth wouldn’t stop chattering, and I was dying to get out of my clothes.“I’m going to take a shower,” I said, my voice a bit raw, body sore and sluggish.He didn’t respond, but there was no need. Six wasn’t one for unnecessary conversation, and I knew there was a lot going on in his head.I stripped off my still damp clothes that were covered in salt and sand, and let them fall to the floor as I turned on the water. My skin felt ice cold to the touch.As I stepped in, the warm water felt like it was burning my cool skin. I let the warmth fall over me, roll across my skin, and tried to forget.To forget that Six was betrayed by two of his own, one being his own brother. To forget that we were probably still being hunted, and with a greater ferocity than before.The sound of the shower curtain rings sliding across the rod made me open my eyes. Six stared at me, completely naked, as he climbed in with me. H
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